Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Last night was 'go-go-go' for Mr Johnson's leadership push, a close ally said But the Foreign Secretary will not take any action while Theresa May remains MoS poll found that 41 per cent of all voters want Mrs May to resign immediately

By Glen Owen and Brendan Carlin for The Mail on SundayPublished: 17:00 EDT, 10 June 2017 | Updated: 08:37 EDT, 11 June 2017

Boris Johnson is preparing a new bid to become Prime Minister as Theresa May’s grip on No 10 becomes increasingly fragile.

A close ally of the Foreign Secretary said last night it was ‘go-go-go’ for Mr Johnson’s leadership push, adding: ‘We need Bojo. We need a Brexiteer. We need somebody who can talk and connect with people like Jeremy Corbyn does. We need someone who can make Britain believe in itself again.’

Mr Johnson’s supporters are being careful to say that he will not take any action while Mrs May remains in No 10 – but the fact that his allies are actively briefing about his virtues will be seen in Downing Street as destabilising.

Nigel Farage has said he is considering returning as Ukip leader after Paul Nuttall's resignation.

When asked whether he was contemplating taking on the position, the Brexiteer, who led the party until just after the EU referendum, told the BBC: "I'm thinking about it."

"It's not top of my bucket list. For me, getting the referendum, forcing the referendum and helping to win it, I thought I was done with it," he said....

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Somewhere between zero and €100bn (£84bn) is probably the only accurate answer at the moment. The former is what some British ministers still argue for, drawing succour from an influential House of Lords report that suggests any liability arising on leaving the EU is not legally enforceable because the UK will have left.

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Dear me. Chuka Umunna? Talk about a fake, metro Blairite champagne socialist. That would likely be a huge blessing for the Tories. Which is fine for me while Brexit is still underway. I don't vote for them but they at least have hardliners in the party who can't stand the EU. I just want us to be as far away from EU membership as humanly possible by the time of the next election.

Does he concede that the whole basis of the Maastricht treaty is the establishment of a European central bank which is staffed by bankers, independent of national Governments and national economic policies, and whose sole policy is the maintenance of price stability? That will undermine any social objective that any Labour Government in the United Kingdom—or any other Government—would wish to carry out. Does my hon. Friend recognise that the imposition of a bankers' Europe on the people of this continent will endanger the cause of socialism in the United Kingdom and in any other country?

My hon. Friend is right in saying that the Bank of England has often operated against the interests of Labour Governments. That is due to the mandarins who run it. If the hon. Gentleman has such doubts about the running of a bank which theoretically is state-owned and state-controlled, what influence does he think will be possible in the case of an independent central bank dedicated to a course of Euro-monetarism?

If my hon. Friend is now envisaging the establishment of a federal Europe, will he not reflect that the Maastricht treaty does not take us in the direction of the checks and balances contained in the American federal constitution? It takes us in the opposite direction of an unelected legislative body—the Commission—and, in the case of foreign policy, a policy Commission that will be, in effect, imposing foreign policy on nation states that have fought for their own democratic accountability.

My understanding is that technically its not a loaded question because it does not contain the logical fallacy requirement.I'm flexible on this because althought the above is true, I think its a good textbook example of a simple loaded question.

Its just not weaponized with a logical fallacy component.

Hence, I described it as "simple".The key thing is you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.

But in my book, "you're damned if you do and damned if you don't" is a practical working everyday definition.

And lastly, I did not create a paradox, the question simply reflects the "Through The Looking Glass" world we live in.

Corbyn is clearly a Bennite but the Labour Party itself is very pro-EU. Even many of Corbyn's allies. Theresa May, on the other hand, is a remainer but she's still allowed (and even expected) to be full throated on Brexit. It's far from an ideal choice, as you say. I'm not sure yet whether there's a right or wrong answer so I think everyone's just got to use their best judgment and hope it works out.

I'm also not as convinced as others that there'll be another general election before Article 50 expires so we may not have to face this horrible choice if we're lucky.

Another thing that worries me about Labour is not so much their general socialistic policies, but the derangement of their supporters. Even left-wing polling analysts found this to be a problem for them in 2015. The public are very concerned about handing these children state power. It's mentioned often but the Momentum crowd are the reason Farage needed to have bodyguards and are likely the reason you never see him with his kids.

New doubts have emerged about Theresa May’s commitment to Brexit after she suggested she would vote Remain if an EU referendum were held today and boasts of being a “European”.

The Prime Minister was challenged in an interview with French television on how she would vote if a European Union referendum were held today.

Asked “how you would vote on Brexit", she initially said “I didn’t say how I would vote”.

But then said: “If a vote was to come up, I would do what I did last time round which was sit down and look carefully at the issues.

“But there isn’t going to be another vote, so this is not an issue. What is going to happen is the UK is going to leave the European Union.”

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Writing for the Daily Express, the Foreign Secretary hails the “glorious” future ahead when the country quits the EU one year from today.

“Our national journey out of the EU is almost over - and a glorious view awaits,” Boris Johnson says.

His upbeat assessment of the came as an exclusive ComRes survey for the Daily Express tonight showed 68% of Britons think that those who voted against quitting the EU "should respect the majority" for leave.

Even four in ten people (38%) who voted Remain in the 2016 referendum now agree that the Leave vote should be respected, according to the poll commissioned to mark one year to go until the UK formally leaves the EU.

And total of 65% of voters in the survey did not want a second referendum on Britain's membership of the bloc, the online survey of more than 2,000 adults found.

In his exclusive article for the Express, Mr Johnson says: “It’s exactly a year from today that Britain will be out of the European Union and re-engaging with the rest of the world.”

...He adds: “Like an unstoppable express, we are heading for Brexit and frankly my friends, we can’t arrive soon enough.”

The massive 68% support for the Government getting on with delivering Brexit in the Daily Express/ComRes poll compares with 52% who voted for Leave and 48% for Remain in the in-or-out EU referendum in 2016.

Britons are now overwhelmingly optimistic about the country's prospects for "taking back control" of domestic policy making after the country quitting the EU, the ComRes survey said

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

The British public is overwhelmingly opposed to the Prime Minister?s plan for a ?soft? Brexit and almost a third of voters are prepared to back a new, right-wing party committed to a clean Brexit, a poll shows.

Theresa May?s Chequers Brexit plan will keep the United Kingdom tied to all the bloc?s goods rules, severely limiting the nation?s ability to control trade policy, and reports suggest she could also retreat on migration, allowing ?Free Movement by another name?.

The survey, conducted by YouGov for The Sunday Times newspaper, shows only a tenth would pick the plan if there were a second referendum and nearly half think it would be bad for the nation....

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Ministers have drawn up plans to send in the army to deliver food, medicines and fuel in the event of shortages if Britain crashes out of the EU without a deal.

Blueprints for the armed forces to assist the civilian authorities, usually used only in civil emergencies, have been dusted down as part of the ?no deal? planning.

Helicopters and army trucks would be used to ferry supplies to vulnerable people outside the southeast who were struggling to obtain the medicines they needed....

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Former Ukip leader Nigel Farage is to lend his support to a hard-Brexit campaign group, he has said.

Farage accused MPs and the Lords of refusing to enact the result of the 2016 EU referendum and said he would join forces with the property tycoon Richard Tice to argue against Theresa May?s proposed Brexit deal.

Farage has backed the Leave Means Leave campaign Tice runs with John Longworth, the former head of the British Chambers of Commerce.

?I have spent some time in the last week with Messrs Tice and Longworth. They have told me they intend to hold a series of public events throughout Britain to promote their message and help represent the views of Brexiteers,? Farage wrote in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday.

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Farage claimed that, since electors were asked to vote in the EU referendum 2016, ?there has been virtually no input from the people at all apart from at the 2017 general election?.

17.4 million people voted for the UK to leave the European Union ? the largest democratic mandate in the history of British politics. Their wishes must be respected. That means we must regain control of our borders, our laws and our money. Unequivocally, Leave means leaving the Single Market, leaving the customs union and UK courts no longer being subservient to the European Court of Justice.

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He said: 'We have opened ourselves to perpetual political blackmail. We have wrapped a suicide vest around the British constitution ' and handed the detonator to Michel Barnier.

'We have given him a jemmy with which Brussels can choose ' at any time ' to crack apart the union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.'

Under the EU's version of the exit plan, if no trade deal with the UK resolved the issue of the border problem, Northern Ireland would effectively remain part of the single market.

Mr Johnson added: 'At every stage in the talks so far, Brussels gets what Brussels wants.'...

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As many as 670,000 people protested in London to call for a second Brexit referendum. ...

They are completely ignorant of the fact that remaining in the EU will be the death of Britain. They listen to the likes of Tony Blair and other politicians who get huge pensions from the EU. These protesters are really too stupid to understand what they are protesting for and they are just pawns in a game for corrupt politicians.

The economic growth of Britain has steadily declined ever since joining the EU.

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz joined EU leaders in sending warning shots to revolting Brexiteers that they will get no better Brexit deal than the one already agreed between the Prime Minister and European Commission. The firebrand leader, who currently holds the EU?s rotating presidency, told reporters the current draft proposals prevent a no-deal Brexit ? which will hurt the UK more than it would the EU. He said: ?I very much hope that in Great Britain there will be support for the deal that was agreed on between Great Britain and the chief negotiator Michel Barnier.

?It is a good deal for both sides, nobody has been cheated.

?This deal prevents a hard Brexit. Therefore it helps us in Europe, but even more so it helps GB because a hard Brexit would hit GB significantly more severely....

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Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

This week, Theresa May?s government teetered on the point of collapse over her proposed Brexit deal. The withdrawal agreement between the UK and Brussels led to Dominic Raab and Esther McVey resigning in protest. However, May?s remaining ministers have since attempted to rally around her at least in the short term. Speaking on Friday, Liam Fox ? the International Trade Secretary ? gave a speech in which he declared ?a deal is better than no deal?. This is rather different to May?s old claim that ?no deal is better than a bad deal?.

So, is Fox right? Mr S thought it best to let readers decide for themselves. In theory, Britain is leaving the EU on 29 March 2019. But the legal small print, published by Brussels, shows what this means. Parliament will be asked to ratify a deal which clearly admits that ?all references to ?Member States? and competent authorities of Member States?shall be read as including the United Kingdom.? (Article 7). So the UK will be bound by EU laws, at least during a transition period. But this ?transition period? can be be made to last forever (Article 132). And even if a successor deal is agreed, the UK will have signed away other rights for years to come.

Just in case readers don?t have the time to go through the lengthly document themselves, Steerpike has compiled a list of the top 40 horrors lurking in the small print of Theresa May?s Brexit deal:

In summary: The supposed ?transition period? could last indefinitely or, more specifically, to an undefined date sometime this century (?up to 31 December 20XX?, Art. 132). So while this Agreement covers what the government is calling Brexit, what we in fact get is: ?transition? + extension indefinitely (by however many years we are willing to pay for) + all of those extra years from the ?plus 8 years? articles.

Should it end within two years, as May hopes, the UK will still be signed up to clauses keeping us under certain rules (like VAT and ECJ supervision) for a further eight years. Some clauses have, quite literally, a ?lifetime? duration (Art.39). If the UK defaults on transition, we go in to the backstop with the Customs Union and, realistically, the single market. We can only leave the transition positively with a deal. But we sign away the money. So the EU has no need to give us a deal, and certainly no incentive to make the one they offered ?better? than the backstop. The European Court of Justice remains sovereign, as repeatedly stipulated. Perhaps most damagingly of all, we agree to sign away the rights we would have, under international law, to unilaterally walk away. Again, what follows relates (in most part) for the ?transition? period. But the language is consistent with the E.U. imagining that this will be the final deal.

The top 40 horrors:

1 From the offset, we should note that this is an EU text, not a UK or international text. This has one source. The Brexit agreement is written in Brussels.

2 May says her deal means the UK leaves the EU next March. The Withdrawal Agreement makes a mockery of this. ?All references to Member States and competent authorities of Member States?shall be read as including the United Kingdom.? (Art 6). Not quite what most people understand by Brexit. It goes on to spell out that the UK will be in the EU but without any MEPs, a commissioner or ECJ judges. We are effectively a Member State, but we are excused ? or, more accurately, excluded ? from attending summits. (Article 7)

3 The European Court of Justice is decreed to be our highest court, governing the entire Agreement ? Art. 4. stipulates that both citizens and resident companies can use it. Art 4.2 orders our courts to recognise this. ?If the European Commission considers that the United Kingdom has failed to fulfil an obligation under the Treaties or under Part Four of this Agreement before the end of the transition period, the European Commission may, within 4 years after the end of the transition period, bring the matter before the Court of Justice of the European Union?. (Art. 87)

4 The jurisdiction of the ECJ will last until eight years after the end of the transition period. (Article 158).

5 The UK will still be bound by any future changes to EU law in which it will have no say, not to mention having to comply with current law. (Article 6(2))

6 Any disputes under the Agreement will be decided by EU law only ? one of the most dangerous provisions. (Article 168). This cuts the UK off from International Law, something we?d never do with any foreign body. Arbitration will be governed by the existing procedural rules of the EU law ? this is not arbitration as we would commonly understand it (i.e. between two independent parties). (Article 174)

7 ?UNDERLINING that this Agreement is founded on an overall balance of benefits, rights and obligations for the Union and the United Kingdom? No, it should be based upon the binding legal obligations upon the EU contained within Article 50. It is wrong to suggest otherwise.

8 The tampon tax clause: We obey EU laws on VAT, with no chance of losing the tampon tax even if we agree a better deal in December 2020 because we hereby agree to obey other EU VAT rules for **five years** after the transition period. Current EU rules prohibit 0-rated VAT on products (like tampons) that did not have such exemptions before the country joined the EU.

9 Several problems with the EU?s definitions: ?Union law? is too widely defined and ?United Kingdom national? is defined by the Lisbon Treaty: we should given away our right to define our citizens. The ?goods? and the term ?services? we are promised the deal are not defined ? or, rather, will be defined however the EU wishes them to be. Thus far, this a non-defined term so far. This agreement fails to define it.

10 The Mandelson Pension Clause: The UK must promise never to tax former EU officials based here - such as Peter Mandelson or Neil Kinnock - on their E.U. pensions, or tax any current Brussels bureaucrats on their salaries. The EU and its employees are to be immune to our tax laws. (Article 104)

11 Furthermore, the UK agrees not to prosecute EU employees who are, or who might be deemed in future, criminals (Art.101)

12 The GDPR clause. The General Data Protection Regulation ? the EU?s stupidest law ever? ? is to be bound into UK law (Articles 71 to 73). There had been an expectation in some quarters that the UK could get out of it.

13 The UK establishes a ?Joint Committee? with EU representatives to guarantee ?the implementation and application of this Agreement?. This does not sound like a withdrawal agreement ? if it was, why would it need to be subject to continued monitoring? (Article 164). This Joint Committee will have subcommittees with jurisdiction over: (a) citizens? rights; (b) ?other separation provisions?; (c) Ireland/Northern Ireland; (d) Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus; (e) Gibraltar; and (f) financial provisions. (Article 165)

14 The Lifetime clause: the agreement will last as long as the country?s youngest baby lives. ?the persons covered by this Part shall enjoy the rights provided for in the relevant Titles of this Part for their lifetime?. (Article 39).

15 The UK is shut out of all EU networks and databases for security ? yet no such provision exists to shut the EU out of ours. (Article

16 The UK will tied to EU foreign policy, ?bound by the obligations stemming from the international agreements concluded by the Union? but unable to influence such decisions. (Article 124)

17 All EU citizens must be given permanent right of residence after five years ? but what counts as residence? This will be decided by the EU, rather than UK rules. (Articles 15-16)

18 Britain is granted the power to send a civil servant to Brussels to watch them pass stupid laws which will hurt our economy. (Article 34)

20 Art 40 defines Goods. It seems to includes Services and Agriculture. We may come to discover that actually ?goods? means everything.

21 Articles 40-49 practically mandate the UK?s ongoing membership of the Customs Union in all but name.

22 The UK will be charged to receive the data/information we need in order to comply with EU law. (Article 50)

23 The EU will continue to set rules for UK intellectual property law (Article 54 to 61)

24 The UK will effectively be bound by a non-disclosure agreement swearing us to secrecy regarding any EU developments we have paid to be part. This is not mutual. The EU is not bound by such measures. (Article 74)

25 The UK is bound by EU rules on procurement rules ? which effectively forbids us from seeking better deals elsewhere. (Articles 75 to 78)

26 We give up all rights to any data the EU made with our money (Art. 103)

28 The UK is bound by EU state aid laws until future agreement ? even in the event of an agreement, this must wait four years to be valid. (Article 93)

29 Similar advantages and immunities are extended to all former MEPs and to former EU official more generally. (Articles 106-116)

30 The UK is forbidden from revealing anything the EU told us or tells us about the finer points of deal and its operation. (Article 105).

31 Any powers the UK parliament might have had to mitigate EU law are officially removed. (Article 128)

32 The UK shall be liable for any ?outstanding commitments? after 2022 (Article 142(2) expressly mentions pensions, which gives us an idea as to who probably negotiated this). The amount owed will be calculated by the EU. (Articles 140-142)

33 The UK will be liable for future EU lending. As anyone familiar with the EU?s financials knows, this is not good. (Article143)

34 The UK will remain liable for capital projects approved by the European Investment Bank. (Article 150).

35 The UK will remain a ?party? (i.e. cough up money) for the European Development Fund. (Articles 152-154)

36 And the EU continues to calculate how much money the UK should pay it. So thank goodness Brussels does not have any accountancy issues.

37 The UK will remain bound (i.e coughing up money) to the European Union Emergency Trust Fund ? which deals with irregular migration (i.e. refugees) and displaced persons heading to Europe. (Article 155)

38 The agreement will be policed by ?the Authority? ? a new UK-based body with ?powers equivalent to those of the European Commission?. (Article 159)

39 The EU admits, in Art. 184, that it is in breach of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which oblige it to ?conclude an agreement? of the terms of UK leaving the EU. We must now, it seems, ?negotiate expeditiously the agreements governing their future relationship.? And if the EU does not? We settle down to this Agreement.

40 And, of course, the UK will agree to pay ?40bn to receive all of these ?privileges?. (Article 138)

Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty: For he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole ; He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee. - Job 5

10 The Mandelson Pension Clause: The UK must promise never to tax former EU officials based here - such as Peter Mandelson or Neil Kinnock - on their E.U. pensions, or tax any current Brussels bureaucrats on their salaries. The EU and its employees are to be immune to our tax laws. (Article 104)